Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 00:17:35 -0700
Reply-To: "J. Harvey" <jtharvey2@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: "J. Harvey" <jtharvey2@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: low fuel pressure and lean engine
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Many vans have two filters. The cheap square palstic box filter before the
pump and the more expensive 'beer can' filter after the pump. My '85 has
only the pre-pump plastic box filter. My '81 California Westfalia has both.
The post pump only filter is a bizarre design. Upgrading to two is easy.
-john
>From: Anonymous Digest <jbrush@AROS.NET>
>Reply-To: jbrush@AROS.NET
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: low fuel pressure and lean engine
>Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 22:55:47 -0600
>
> >> >filter about 1 year ago, it's cheap and I thought it would
be worth
> >> >the cost. Unfortunately, Kragen sold me one that doesn't
look like it
> >> >will fit. Maybe it is for before the fuel pumpt? It's a
square
> >> >plastic white one and my current fuel filter is like a fat
beer can
> >> >with no label, kind of a shiny aluminum look. The fat
beer can filter
> >> >goes inline after the fuel pump.
>
>
>Although I admit right up front I have no ideas to offer on this
problem, I
>always read this kind of sentence the same way, every time anyone has a
fuel
>flow problem.
>
>I stand in amazement that any engineer at any level, would put the fuel
filter
>AFTER the pump. If your tank is dirty, and I am not saying that is the
case
>here, then your pump is doomed to self destruct. Even if the tank is in
pretty
>good shape, why would anyone want any of the crud that comes out of the
tank, to
>have a free shot at the pump? This has to stress the pump and shorten
the life,
>as well as cut down the efficiency. Serious 'after the horse has left
the barn'
>syndrome here, if you ask me.
>
>Others with more experience and whose vans are so configured probably
have
>reason to poo poo this, but there really should be a filter BEFORE the
pump,
>even if you have one after as well. What are we wanting the filter will
>protect? Me, I want to protect the whole system, including the pump,
especially
>when you see how expensive those babies are.
>
>Its late, and I'm bored, so I thought I would throw that out there :-)
>
>John
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